Category: Fiction, flash story
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The Legend of Zelda and The Twisted Key – 1

There, I was staring at the light that shone from behind the chancellor’s chair. I am in the spotlight. The feather clad Flappers stare down at me from on their high eyries. The sewer crawlers, Zorans, beneath the city they make their dwellings in the undercity lakes and rivers. The Sprouts, the child-like folk that…
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Hurry up and Wait
I was told that joining the army was a good thing. That serving . country was a high honor. But ever since I joined back in 1968, my whole career with the military has been defined by four words. Hurry up and wait. I volunteered and almost immediately tension rose and I was sent to…
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Reclaiming the Sea – Daring the Pacific
Daring the Pacific The waters of the Pacific ocean were as treacherous as the men that sailed it. If the proverb held true in World War Two then not even a hundred years would change it. Commander Elliot Pike stood on the bow of the resupply frigate, the Endeavor. After the so much of the…
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Silent Crack

The world started to end the night the moon cracked. It wasn’t an audible crack, but the way that the world stood still and watched as the moon cracked and crinkled. The whole world stood still and with one gasp everyone united and began to pray. There was no agnostics, no atheists, all men, women,…
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Nailbed Memo – September 20, 2021
To Herschal, Salutation young ward. Have you heard of modesty in today’s world? No? It’s not surprising. Indeed one of our greatest victories comes from lust and the imaginative question of “What if…”. For it is already within our clients to question what the female body may look like, but it was our side that…


